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The Rock Reviews

The perfect definition of a "Popcorn Flick". A film that rides the perfect line between being too over-the-top and being too serious. Great performances by Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris. You can tell that they are all having a blast acting in this movie. The action scenes are spectacular! Some great gun battles and a pretty wild car chase through the streets of San Fransisco. This movie also comes with its fair share of comedy. Nick Cage and Sean Connery have some pretty great banter between each other and work well as the film's two leads. If you have a bunch of buddies around with some snacks and drinks and are looking for a good time, then "The Rock" is a good choice!

A thrilling and explosive film led by a trio of fantastic actors (especially Cage) and surprisingly well directed for a Michael Bay movie, and it also impresses with the way that the smart script introduces many narrative elements which turn out to play an important role later on.

Hugely entertaining movie which never loses its appeal regardless of multiple viewing. The very definition of 'entertainment'. Connery is superb, Cage is at his best and the combination is one element that makes this movie work. Very good.

One of Michael Bay's better films I actually enjoyed the interplay between Connery & Cage and Harris and Morse play excellent conflicted villains, Biehn is wasted Ina throwaway role, but for the most part the film effectively uses Bay's classic tropes.

"The Rock" is another one of director "Michael Bay's" okay action movies. The plot to "The Rock" is a terrorist threat is made and "Stanley Goodspeed" portrayed by "Nicholas Cage" who works for the "F.B.I." must assist with the operation along side with the hilarious "John Mason" portrayed by "Sean Connery". The movie opens with a military scene of someone visiting a grave. The scene is an interesting opening to a military movie. Throughout the movie it shows the "F.B.I." trying to negotiate to terrorist threat. "The Rock" is a very slow movie, which makes some scenes boring to watch, the first half an hour of the movie are more difficult to watch than a snail walking across a room. The climax is entertaining at certain points but fails due to boring scenes and is shot horribly mixed with an excellent soundtrack. One of "Nicholas Cage's" first scenes in the movie makes the audience hate/dislike his character, which makes it hard to believe he is the antagonist. "Sean Connery" along with "Nicholas Cage" both give amazing performances and "Sean Connery" gives one of his best performances in his life. The music in this movie has fits in perfectly with the climax but throughout the movie fails to excite or captivate the audience. "John Schwartzman" does an awful job at filming action, its as almost he doesn't even give a damn about filming at all. He shakes the camera whenever necessary, films action childishly and doesn't know where and what to film. "The Rock" gets a lot of mixed reviews so I can't recommend it nor recommend not watching it. "The Rock" contains amazing acting from "Nicholas Cage" and "Sean Connery" but has issues, which are boring scenes and unnecessary camera shaking of "John Schwartzman" mixed in with okay sound track. I give 1996's "The Rock" a 5/10.

Solid 90's blockbuster action flick.Glorious look on film with some of Michael Bay's trademark shots. Story has a clever plot utilising real science (with a movie spin of course) and keeps you entertained and engaged throughout. Sean Connery's Mason is a classic anti-hero whom you can tell has channelled his experience playing Bond to portray a man whom we catch up to later in life and this plays out an interesting character.Nicolas Cage is in his prime doing what he does best, managing clever dialogue and crazy outbrakes.Ed Harris excellently manages a broken yet strong man embattling a government dedicated to screwing over the armed forces.